HACK - Jarvis Gone Wrong workflow (skills/secure-code-game)

The HACK - Jarvis Gone Wrong workflow from skills/secure-code-game, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the HACK - Jarvis Gone Wrong workflow from the skills/secure-code-game repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

# This file is expected to fail ❌ upon push until you fix the bug
# You successfully completed this level when this file pass 🟢 upon push
name: HACK - Jarvis Gone Wrong

on:
  push:
    paths:
      - ".github/workflows/jarvis-code.yml"

jobs:
  jarvis:
    if: ${{ !github.event.repository.is_template }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
    steps:
      - name: Check out code
        uses: actions/checkout@v7

      - name: Check for insecure actions
        run: |
          if grep -q "uses: dduzgun-security/secure-code-game-action@" $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/jarvis-code.yml; then
            echo "Insecure action detected. Please remove it from your workflow."
            exit 1
          fi

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

# This file is expected to fail ❌ upon push until you fix the bug
# You successfully completed this level when this file pass 🟢 upon push
name: HACK - Jarvis Gone Wrong
 
on:
  push:
    paths:
      - ".github/workflows/jarvis-code.yml"
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  jarvis:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    if: ${{ !github.event.repository.is_template }}
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    permissions:
      contents: read
    steps:
      - name: Check out code
        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
      - name: Check for insecure actions
        run: |
          if grep -q "uses: dduzgun-security/secure-code-game-action@" $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/workflows/jarvis-code.yml; then
            echo "Insecure action detected. Please remove it from your workflow."
            exit 1
          fi
 

What changed

• Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
• Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
• Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow